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Definition: Cryolite |
CryoliteNoun1. A white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and sodium; a source of fluorine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mining | A monoclinic mineral, Na3 AlF6 ; waxy colorless to white (disappears in water owing to low refractive index); soft; in veinlike cleavable masses in granite at Ivigtut, Greenland. Syn:Greenland spar;ice stone. (references) |
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Cryolite is an uncommon mineral of very limited natural distribution. Mostly considered a one locality mineral, for although there are a few other minor localities, it was only found in large quantities on the west coast of Greenland.
It was used as a solvent of the aluminium rich ore, bauxite, which is a combination of aluminium oxides such as gibbsite, boehmite and diaspore. It is very difficult to remove atoms of aluminium from atoms of oxygen which is necessary in order to produce aluminium metal. Cryolite made an excellent flux to make the process less expensive. Now it is too rare to be used for this purpose and sodium aluminium fluoride is produced artificially to fill the void.
A curious note about cryolite is the fact that it has a low index of refraction close to that of water. This means that if immersed in water, a perfectly clear colorless crystal of cryolite or powdered cryolite will essentially disappear. Even a specimen of cloudy cryolite will become more transparent and its edges will be less distinct, an effect similar to ice in water except that the ice floats.
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Synonym: CryoliteSynonym: Greenland spar (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cryolite |
| English words defined with "cryolite": atomic number 9 ♦ fluorine ♦ Kryolite ♦ Ralstonite ♦ Thomsenolite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cryolite": boggildite ♦ control man, CONTROL OPERATOR, CRYOLITE-RECOVERY OPERATOR ♦ RAW SAMPLER ♦ sample carrier. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cryolite" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (cryolite). |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cryolite | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "cryolite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الكرايوليت بعلم المعادن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | криолит. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 冰晶石 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kryolit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | natriumaluminiumfluorid (sodium aluminium fluoride), kryolit (sodium aluminium fluoride). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | natriumaluminiumfluoride (sodium aluminium fluoride), kryoliet (sodium aluminium fluoride), ijssteen (sodium aluminium fluoride). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cryolite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Natriumaluminiumfluorid (sodium aluminium fluoride), Kryolith (sodium aluminium fluoride). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρυόλιθος (sodium aluminium fluoride), διπλό φθορίδιο του αργιλίου και του νατρίου (sodium aluminium fluoride). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jégkõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | criolite (sodium aluminium fluoride), fluoruro di sodio e alluminio (sodium aluminium fluoride). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 빙 석. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | clagh Ghreenlyn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yolitecray criólito. (various references) криолит. (various references) kriolit. (various references) criolita (sodium aluminium fluoride). (various references) kryolitis. (various references) кріоліт. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "cryolite": cryolites. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cryolite" (pronounced krī"ulī't) |
| 4 | -u l ī' t | acolyte, impolite, lazulite, niccolite, satellite, socialite. |
| 3 | -l ī' t | backlight, candlelight, daylight, flashlight, floodlight, headlight, highlight, inflight, limelight, moonlight, overflight, searchlight, skylight, spotlight, starlight, stoplight, sunlight, twilight. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-o-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: citole, coiler, colter, erotic, lector, lictor, loiter, recoil, relict, toiler. | |
-3 letters: ceorl, citer, coyer, lirot, liter, litre, lotic, lyric, lytic, octyl, oiler, oleic, oriel, recti, recto, relic, relit, reoil, riley, roily, telic, teloi, tiler, toile, toric, toyer, trice, triol. | |
-4 letters: ceil, celt, cero, cire, cite, city, clit, clot, cloy, coil, coir, cole, colt. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-o-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: cryolites. | |
+2 letters: chrysolite, chrysotile, contritely, erotically, lectionary, plyometric. | |
+3 letters: calorimetry, chrysolites, chrysotiles, colinearity, colorimetry, convertibly, explicatory, factorylike, hectoringly, heterolytic, incorrectly, maledictory, myoelectric, plyometrics, polycentric, proteolytic, reconditely, valedictory, vectorially, viceroyalty. | |
+4 letters: bacteriology, chalcopyrite, clitorectomy, collinearity, coordinately, corporeality, correctively, corruptively, cryptologies, cyclodextrin, decoratively, electrolysis, electrolytic, elocutionary, entropically, esoterically, exoterically, glycoprotein, heterocyclic, hypochlorite, incoherently, meteorically, neurotically, noncelebrity, operatically, polycentrism, productively, proficiently, projectively, protectively, pyroelectric, refractorily, reticulocyte, rhetorically. | |
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